Graduation Construction Party Theme

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Build a brilliant graduation party. Construction workers, surveyors, burger vendors all give great costumes.

I hope to give you lots of graduation party ideas, including:

• Invitation ideas and wording


• Costumes


• Food


• Games


• Favors


• Lots more ideas.

The venue could be simply at home, which is great for relatives and friends who will be comfortable and relaxed. Safety is important so a real construction site is out of the question. However a safe site can be constructed in a backyard or hall.

Graduation Construction Party Theme - Invitations

There are lots of great images to use to give graduation invitations, and the graduation party, a brilliant construction feel.You can put together homemade graduation invitations, use clipart, photo graduation invitations and brilliant free printables.

Paper

Regular white printer paper is just fine. You may be able to find stationery from a construction firm, surveyors firm or architects firm.For youngsters use Bob The Builder paper.

You can also use yellow or orange cardstock cut out in the shape of warning signs. Put Warning Construction Site on them.

Also you can use cardstock to to make graduation invitations shaped as trucks, hard hats, saws, hammers, or worker.

Homemade Graduation Invitations

Once you have the paper organised you can move on to writing the invites.

Use lots of phrases like:

• Work Site


• Shift


• Bulldoze


• Crew


• Warning Construction Site


• Site Boss


• For younger ones, Bob The Builder says Can We Build It, Yes We Can!

Brilliant ways to word the graduation party invitations are:

Wording

Bob The Builder (graduate name) invites you to a graduation construction party.
Can We Party, Yes We Can!
Wear your construction gear
Site Details (venue)
Shift Starts At
RSVP to Site Boss

The Site Boss invites to to a shift (start time) at the graduation construction party.
Come and put in a good shift with the crew!
Costume: Construction Worker
RSVP to Site Boss

Warning: graduation construction party.
Hard hats required to enter the food, games and dancing site
Site details (venue)
Costume: Construction worker
Shift Starts At (details)
RSVP to Site Boss

Help us construct the perfect graduation party.
Hammer and saw your way through the party games, food and drinks.
Wear your best construction gear
Site (details)
Shift starts at (details)
RSVP to Site Boss

Bulldoze your way through the high school (venue) construction party.
Shift Starts at (details)
Costume is construction worker
RSVP to Site Boss

The Foreman invites you to join the construction crew for a graduation party.
Safety Gear required.
Shift Starts at (details)
RSVP to Site Boss

Come and help the graduate construct a great graduation party.
Safety Gear required.
Shift Starts at (details)
RSVP to Site Boss

Clipart Graduation Invitations

The simplest way to complete the graduation construction party theme invitations is to use construction clipart.

• Copy and Past the construction graduation clip art image that you would like to use into your word document. Before you paste make sure your cursor is in the location where you want the clip art placed


• Click on the image and arrows will appear on the corners. Use these arrows to stretch the image to the desired size.


• Then I simply added wordart at the top of the page for a great title and added the party details in plain text underneath the graduation clip art.

Photo Construction Party Theme Invitations

Also, simply arrange a good quality construction photograph. Photograph of the graduate dressed in construction costume (hard hat, jeans, flannel shirt and tool belt) would be perfect. Just set the scene for the construction party theme.

Scan it onto your computer.

Using photo editing software, change the picture dimensions to the size you need.

Then simply print onto your choice of paper.

Free Printable Graduation Invitations

Graduation Construction Party Theme - Costumes

Construction Hats

Job Badges

Graduation Construction Party Theme - Decorations

• Build a truck standin, have your guests pose at the entrance to the construction party theme and have their construction workers photo taken.


• Use rolls of construction tape on your fence to mark the party. All round the venue use construction tape to mark off party areas like food, games, dancing, and coat check.


• Erect Warning Signs with Warning Graduation Party Ahead, Party Games At Work, Party At Own Risk, Party Site Safety, Hard Hats Required. Similarly you can use raodwork signs.


• Use Orange Cones to mark off party areas and the path into the party.


• Flashing lights can brilliantly showcase a construction area of the party. Perhaps flashing Xmas lights could be used.


• Have a clocking in area. Great if you can borrow a real clocking in machine with cards.


• Create a safe construction site. Use ladders, tools and sand. Keep this safe from small kids.


• Have a sandpit which is used for a dig.


• Set out all the construction toys you can have, and can borrow. If you can get Tonka Trucks that would be excellent.


• Make tools from card and hang them up on the walls and ceiling.


• Find some blueprints and set them out somewhere safe on a fake drawing board.


• Arrange a fake architects, or surveyors, desk with plans, compass, pencils and geometric tools.


• Hang up pictures and posters of construction sites and safety at work. Quite stunning images are those ones of the Empire State construction with workers standing on top of steel girders high up in the air.


• Set up a roadworks in the driveway.


• Hang up hard hats and safety vests


• Streamers are great for every party.


• Balloons are another party favorite. Yellow and orange balloons can be decorated to be warning signs.


• Create a site office, even just an area of the venue which can be given a site office sign and surrounded by construction tape. The office can have a chair, desk, plans and office equipment.


• Make a burger trailer, perhaps even hiring a real one. Put up a Graduate Burgers sign and designate an area that is the burger concession. You might like to serve food from it.

Decorate your guests, this is a brilliant way to add to the graduation construction party theme, and getting your guests in the graduation party mood!

• Face painting could just be to look a little dusty


• Hard Hats


• Safety vests


• Tools made from card


• A 'shift card' for clocking in


• Funtoos


• 2009 Glasses


• 2009 Beads


• Graduation caps


• Cap Medallions


• Lots of glow sticks and bracelets

A great graduation party idea is to have a box of guest decorations at the construction party theme entrance and hand them out liberally!

Graduation Construction Party Theme - Food and Drink

Construction party theme food and drink can closely follow traditional building site catering offerings. You might want to serve the food from a burger concession stand, even better if you can hire one for the party.

• All kinds of sandwiches. You could use a cookie cutter to have them shaped as trucks.


• Burgers, hot dogs and pizza


• Kebabs


• Mashed potato


• Pasta


• Green salad


• Bread roll


• French fries


• Decorate cookies to look like warning signs.


• Donuts


• Jell O served in small clean hard hats


• Jellybeans


• Brownies

Of course it is a party, so to cater for guests of all ages it may be good to have some party food:

• Nachos


• Pretzels


• Ice Cream


• Popcorn


• Bowls of fruit, including grapes, strawberries and kiwi, for example.

To drink have lots of sodas and water, and of course coffee.

Graduation Cake

The graduation construction party theme cake is very easy to make as all the ingredients are mixed together in the same bowl.

The Graduation Cake page gives all the details you need on the recipe, cooking tools and ingredients. Also covering cake pans, cup cakes, cool cake decorating and lots more great cake ideas.

Simple Decorating Idea for Your Graduation Construction Party Theme Cake

1) Decorate the cake with brown frosting for dirt. Using green colored coconut for grass, then add construction toys, a raod mapped out with candles and congratulations to the graduate in white frosting.

2) Alternatively frost the cake in yellow. In black write warning construction party ahead in black frosting. Depending on the size of cake you make you can decorate with construction toys, brown M&Ms for boulders, green gumdrops for shrubs and green coconut for grass.

3) Another cake could be shaped as a hard hat. Perhaps you have a pyrex bowl which can be used to create the rounded hat shape. Bake the cake in it. Frost the cake in yellow and add congratulations to the graduate in black

Graduation Construction Party Theme - Games

A construction party theme offers the chance to have fantastic graduation party games.

• Construction Relay, split the guests into teams. Set out a short course with cones or chalk. Give the first person a bucket of water. They have to run the course and hand the bucket to the next person. First team to complete wins but they must also have the most water left in the bucket. Use your judgement to see who wins.


• Construction Obstacle course, set out a course with cones, tape, card tools, even a chair. Blindfold the players and have them negotiate the course under instruction from their team.


• Construction plan, draw up plans, plotting where the hidden items are. First team to bring in all the items wins. Hide items like mobile phones, cones, signs, hard hats and safety vests.


• Wheelbarrow race, just set out a course with chalk, give each team a wheelbarrow and have them negotiate the course as quickly as they can with one of their team in the wheelbarrow.


• Pin the hard hat on a picture of the graduate or a construction worker. Have a card hard hat with blu-tack on it, and a blindfold. Turn the person round a couple of times and ask them to pin the hard hat on.


• Magnet game, tie a horseshoe magnet to a small fishing pole. Place some metal objects in a pail and have the guests fish out as many objects as they can in say 1 minute. The person with the most objects wins the prize.


• Foreman Says, just like Simon says have someone as the foreman. When the foreman says, the guests must make the move.


• Decorate a hard hat. Give everyone a hard hat, glue, paint, colored paper, feathers, black marker pen and ask them to decorate a hard hat.


• Using foam bricks, split guests into teams and see who can build the foam brick wall the quickest. Give each team say 30 foam bricks.


• Split guests into teams and give each team a lego pack which they must build. Depending on the time you have, the lego pack can be for a garage, construction equipment or any of the other great lego models.


• Clothes changing game. Split everyone into teams. Have 2 piles of clothes. One a set of construction worker clothes, the other a set of outrageous clothes. Each person must run to the first pile and dress and undress, then on to the second pile. Ask a helper to video this one.


• Clear a site, set out messy site areas with cones, card tools, sand, paper, and other items. Give each team a brush and bags for the mess. The first team to clear their site wins.


• Warning Tape, split everyone into teams and select one person for each team, they must cover that person with the warning tape.


• Observation test - discretely display 6 to 10 construction toys or pictures of famous buildings around the venue. Near the end ask guests to complete a sheet on what they observed. Ask for the toys and their location. Have prizes for those getting all answers correct.


• Guess the Building, cover large photos of well known buildings almost completely except for say a distinguishing tower or spiral. Guests must guess what they are and their location, and again prizes for getting them all right.


• Disguise a guest with say a wig, beard, hard hat, work suit and tool belt. Video them playing building something, or even just playing with a kids construction frame, for 2 minutes. Show the video at the party. Guests must guess who they are. First to guess wins the prize.


• Building Trivia, for a short quiz as part of the party ask guests to write down the names of the world's tallest building, the tallest building in USA, the name of the Queen of England's home, the name of the sail shaped building in Dubai and perhaps some other famous buildings locally to you.

For some traditional graduation party games to help the construction party theme try:

• Pass The Sand

  Divide the group into 2 teams and line them up. Have the person in each line grab a handful of sand from a container. They must pass the sand to the next player, who passes it to the next, and so on down the line. When the sand reaches the last player, he/she pours what is left of it on a plate. The team with the most sand wins the game. (You may have to weigh the sand on a food scale if it's close.)
  



• Pass the Orange

  Split the guests into 2 teams, lined up behind each other. The first person in each team has an orange placed between their chin and shoulder. The must pass the orange to the next person in line without using any hands.
  



• Limbo

  Play some fun music while your friends stand in line waiting to bend backwards low enough to fit under the limbo stick (broom handle, yardstick, etc.). In order to win, the limbo master must not touch the stick or fall on the floor while limboing under the stick (which is usually held by 2 people).
  

Click here for an amazing free collection of graduation party games.

A graduation party needs great music to make it come alive.The graduate's favorite, bearing in mind the audience, will be fine. It is a prty so it does need good party music to get things moving.

Graduation Construction Party Theme - Favors

Have fun choosing construction party theme favors:

• Favor pack


• Construction Hats


• Safety vests


• Lunch box


• Fake tools


• T-shirts with construction themes


• Construction toys like trucks


• Stickers


• Job Badges


• Pencil and ruler


• Flashlight


• Keychain


• Tattoos


• Mylar balloons


• Cake


• Chocolate bar or M%Ms


• If you can print the construction party theme photos taken at the entrance and let everyone have a copy of their standin photo to take home.

Graduation Construction Party Theme Preparation

The construction party theme day does need a good schedule of events.

• Plan the start of the construction party theme, when each game will roughly occur, when the food will be served and when the party will start and end.


• Know exactly which graduation party games will be played


• Have the construction party theme music, prizes, helpers and materials ready in advance.


• Each graduation party helper should know exactly what they have to do.


• Have the construction party theme favors ready in advance, and in running order.


• Know exactly who is helping to clear away afterwards.

Graduation Construction Party Theme - Ideas

More ideas to make the graduation construction party theme just brilliant:

• Make sure everyone has their construction party theme photo taken, especially if you have a great construction site entrance


• Video the construction party theme.




• Save money and have a joint construction party theme with other graduates.
  This can give excellent cost sharing, lots of people to do the work and help find items at cheaper costs.


• Save money and Buy Bargain Supplies!


• Save money and book construction party theme venues for the cheaper weeknights, perhaps giving more money to decorate your graduation party theme.

Good luck with your graduation construction party theme. A construction party theme is one of the better graduation party ideas.

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